At this moment, the Spirit Land and the Grotto-Heaven were nearly one. Yin and Yang Qi formed a ring, endlessly coursing and shifting. With every revolution, they drew a mysterious force from the Void and fused it into the two small worlds, making them increasingly stable while gradually strengthening and expanding them.
As time passed, this growth became ever more apparent. Yet tremors occasionally arose within the Spirit Land, unlike the changes in the Earth Veins when the two worlds had first joined.
As the two worlds merged and gradually stabilized, the tremors and fractures within the Spirit Land's realm slowly faded. The entire world underwent a transformation and showed signs of restructuring, increasingly taking on the feel of natural change—
The original world had possessed mountains and rivers, but because it had been projected from Qiu Yan's mind, even after merging many scenes from across the land, it retained an incongruous, uncoordinated quality, resembling a creation of the Mohist School. Yet amid the violent upheaval of the worlds' collision and fusion, mountains crumbled and rivers shifted course, instead giving rise to a trend of natural evolution. Thus, the mountains and rivers within the Spirit Land became increasingly seamless and natural.
Yet amid this harmony, there was one alien presence—
It was a white-bone archway standing upon the earth, surging with boundless Netherworld aura. That aura continually seeped into the ground, and the present tremors originated from there.
Logically, the Netherworld aura's invasion should long since have contaminated and transformed the surrounding land. Yet it was like mud and stones sinking into the sea, without stirring the slightest ripple.
At this moment, within the archway, the wills of Black and White Impermanence were groaning bitterly. These two had originally borne an imposing and solemn air, but they had now greatly